This year's event expanded the competition to the surrounding area and the response almost doubled.

A surprise announcement Monday from Austin that the controversial curriculum CSCOPE would no longer use its 1,600 lesson plans for grades K-12 shocked supporters and critics of CSCOPE.

In March 2012, TAMIU student Eduardo Solchaga Jr. was a passenger in a vehicle traveling on Winfield Parkway in North Laredo when the driver lost control and crashed into a tree.

HENDERSON — The board of trustees for the Henderson Independent School District voted 6-1 at a special Monday afternoon meeting to use a “construction manager at risk” delivery method for the construc

The Small Business Administration and the W20 Group, a cluster of digital communications companies, will hold a webinar on creating content and engaging for Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday.

Former Midland County Judge Bill Morrow has died, according to current County Judge Mike Bradford.

WORD OF THE DAY

rue

■ rue

■ rü

Definition: (v.) To feel sorrow, remorse or regret

Example: “Take away the cause, and the effect ceases; what the eye ne’er sees, the heart ne’er rues”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

When placed in a tense or uncomfortable situation, people have a variety of reactions. Some become angry. Some step in to defend another person. Some simply walk away.

Patrons at The Big Texan Steak Ranch found out how they would react this week as guests on the ABC show, “What Would You Do?”

Producers chose the iconic Amarillo restaurant after deciding to film down historic Route 66. The crew began filming May 8 in Springfield, Miss., then traveled to Weatherford, Okla., and wrapped shooting in Amarillo on Monday. Two segments were filmed in each town.

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Members of the I-20 Corridor Task Force are scheduled to finalize their recommendations to the City Council when they meet for a final time Wednesday.

A $100,000 bond has been set for the Midland woman who was arrested Friday in connection with a fatal hit-and-run, according to the Midland County Sheriff’s Office website.

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Local students to participate in a day of volunteering

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An Amarillo woman died Thursday from injuries suffered in a one-vehicle accident May 13 in Randall County, according to a Department of Public Safety news release.

Brittany Lynn Dial, 26, died at about 5 p.m. Thursday at Northwest Texas Hospital after the 1994 Toyota pickup in which she was riding left Osage Street about a third of a mile north of Farm-to-Market 1151 at about 7 a.m. May 13, DPS said. The pickup struck a driveway formed by a culvert in the roadside ditch, DPS said.

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